It's really, really late. I've been up doing some design work and watching a movie. Bastard Out of Carolina is what I was watching. It made me really, really hate this guy even more than I already hated him as Lester in The House of Sand and Fog. I guess that makes him a good actor? I don't know.
I also watched 3 hrs of American Idol tonight with Jon. He made me. It's our thing. Normally, Wednesday is "tv night" but he had to work until about 12:30am so we just went to bed when he got home. Tonight we caught up. I also watched Grey's. {to my mother in law:} Did I not predict this? *sigh* I guess I'm happy Meredith's still alive, but to tell you the truth I liked her better dead! Also I love Denny and I love the way his shoulders slump forward. He's a beautiful man.
So my friend is in NYC this weekend with his lovely and amazingly talented wife. I'd like to go see them but I don't know if I can! Darnit!
Last night I was playing with my press. I think my tree plate is not quite what I wanted. I wish I had known better, and gotten a different thickness. It works, but it's not exactly what i want. Next time I will know better. After I played, I cleaned my press and took my rollers off and investigated everything and got more or less covered in black ink. My hands and arms are still an ashy gray color, and my fingernails look like, well, dirty, so I'm not stepping foot in public (except for getting Devan from school) until I've scrubbed off every bit of ink.
Well it's actually really, really, really late now. It's time for bed!
PS. Thanks for reading, whoever you are!
I'm still super bummed about blogger. Aside from that I thought I'd start this blog on the right foot by posting some stuff I've been knitting. The day before we left for Ohio I started knitting Devan a sweater. I'm using this pattern from Knit & Tonic.
I'm using some Lion Brand Cotton Ease that I had laying around for 2 years.And over the last couple weeks I've finished a pair of socks:
These socks are made from Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sport in "Argyle" on size 2 needles.
They're a basic inch rib, short row heels and toes.
I also started another pair of Lorna's Laces Shepherd Socks in "Bee Stripe" - These ones just have a rolled edge, short row heel and toe. I knit one in the car on the way to Ohio, and started the other before we arrived, but then I got bored and worked on the Drive-thru cardi.
And finally - Does this look familiar?
Ugh. Yea it does, doesn't it?
After I uncovered an unused hank of Handpainted Yarn in the colorway I'd knit my Clapotis out of, I got this bright idea to unravel to the point before the decreases and make it quite a bit longer. I figured it was worth it, because I wasn't going to use it otherwise. It's been sitting, folded up with all my other scarves for a year and a half.
Well that's all well and good, but I wasn't paying close attention, nor did I consult the pattern before I started unraveling, and I actually (embarrassed to admit) started unraveling the 3 other corners before I got to the right one. SO I had to start over. Here's where I'm at right now.
So that's what's been up with me. Still waiting on a few key things for my press. I am itching to get started! Speaking of itching. My skin is so itchy that I haven't been able to sleep for the last 2 nights. It's unbarable! Winter is miserable!
-(12-08) LIKING:
burritos, knitting for babies, dr. pepper, little potatoes, mitered squares, my bed, the ocean, travel, sleeping in my bed, Jonathan Safran Foer, tenament museums, linen, Air (the french band), Hugh Laurie, Intervention, babies, Iron & Wine, Clive Owen, letterpress, Yeats,
gray, mini-pigs, hotel chevalier, tea, pigs, Quebec, being anywhere but here (nj), modern simple quilts, autumn leaves, white on white, paper, lily snoring
